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1. The Canterbury Tales Review Practice for Characters in The Prologue
3. Answer: KNIGHT
4. Who Am I? He could make songs and poems and recite,
Knew how to joust and dance, to draw and write.
5. Answer: Squire
6. Who Am I? She used to weep if she but saw a mouse
Caught in a trap, if it were dead or bleeding. . .
No morsel from her lips did she let fall
Nor dipped her fingers in the sauce too deep;
But she could carry a morsel up and keep
The smallest drop from falling on her breast.
7. Answer: Prioress
8. Who Am I? This ___ wore a coat and hood of green,
And peacock feathered arrows, bright and keen
His arrows never drooped their feathers low
And in his hand he bore a might bow.
9. Answer: Yeoman
10. Who Am I? Greyhounds he had, as swift as birds, to course
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He had a wrought gold cunningly fashioned pin;
Into a lovers knot it seemed to pass
The Rule of good St. Benet or St. Maur
As old and strict he tended to ignore;
11. Answer: Monk
12. Who Am I? Hed fixed up many a marriage, giving each
Of his young women what he could afford her
13. Answer: Friar
14. Who Am I? Whatever money from his friends he took
He spent on learning or another book.
15. Answer: Oxford Cleric
16. Who Am I? Though there was nowhere one so busy as he,
He was less busy than he seemed to be.
17. Answer: Sergeant at the Law
18. Who Am I? He lived for pleasure and had always done
His house was never short of bake-meat pies,
Of fish and flesh, and these in such supplies
It positively snowed with meat and drink
And all the dainties that a man could think.
19. Answer: Franklin
20. Who Am I?
In company she liked to laugh and chat
And knew the remedies for loves mischances,
An art in which she knew the oldest dances.
21. Answer: Wife of Bath
22. Who Am I? I think there never was a better priest.
He sought no pomp or glory in his dealings,
No scrupulosity had spiced his feelings.
Christ and His Twelve Apostles and their lore
He taught, but followed it himself before.
23. Answer: Parson
24. Who Am I? For steadily about his work he went
To thrash his corn, to dig or to manure
Or make a ditch; and he would help the poor
For love of Christ and never take a penny
If he could help it, . . .
25. Answer: Plowman
26. Who Am I? Broad, knotty and short-shouldered, he would boast
He could heave any door off hinge and post,
Or take a run and break it with his head.
His beard, like any sow or fox, was red
27. Answer: Miller
28. Who Am I? For he had carbuncles. His eyes were narrow,
He was as hot and lecherous as a sparrow.
Black scabby brows he had, and a thin beard.
Children were afraid when he appeared.
29. Answer: Summoner
30. Who Am I? This ___ had hair as yellow as wax,
Hanging down smoothly like a hank of flax
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His wallet lay before him on his lap,
Brimful of pardons come from Rome, all hot.
He had the same small voice a goat has got.
31. Answer: Pardoner
32. Who Am I? Bold in his speech, yet wise and full of tact,
There was no manly attribute he lacked,
Whats more he was a merry-hearted man...
33. Answer: Host
34. Who Am I? Chaucer named me Madam Eglantyne.
35. Answer: The Prioress or Nun
36. Who Am I? My name is Harry Bailey.
37. Answer: The Host
38. Who Am I? My name is Hubert?
39. Answer: Friar
40. Who Am I? He knew the taverns well in every town
And every innkeeper and barmaid too
Better than lepers, beggars and that crew.
41. Answer: The Friar
42. Who Am I? A lover and a cadet, a lad of fire
With locks as curly as if they had been pressed.
43. Answer: The Squire
44. Who Am I? I speak daintily in French.
I wear a broach which reads Love Conquers All written in Latin.
45. Answer: The Prioress
46. Who Am I? He was an easy man in penance giving
Where he could hope to make a decent living.
He kept his tippet stuffed with pins for curls,
And pocket-knives, to give to pretty girls.
47. Answer: The Friar
48. Who Am I? He was not too fat
But had a hollow look, a sober stare;
The thread upon his overcoat was bare.
49. Answer: Oxford Cleric
50. Who Am I? Gap teeth
Large hips
Hat as big as a shield
Travelled on many pilgrimages
51. Answer: Wife of Bath
52. Who Am I? Chaucer named me Hubert.
53. Answer: The Friar
54. Who Am I? I hold pardons fresh from ROME securely on my lap.
55. Answer: Pardoner
56. Who Am I? I also have a horse which looks very thin, like it hasnt been fed in a while.
57. Answer Oxford Cleric
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